PERFORM

 Introduction

As part of its ChangeUp initiative, the Government is focusing energy on both improving the quality and the outcomes of work carried out within the voluntary and community sector.

PERFORM, an outcomes-focused performance improvement framework for voluntary and community sector infrastructural organisations (VCSIOs), is being developed against this background.  The challenge is to develop something which works for all infrastructure organisations at national, regional and local, rural and urban levels, irrespective of their size, focus of their work and client group. It is being steered by a group of VCSIOs and other advisors, under the management of NCVO.

PERFORM seeks to supplement the work being done by many infrastructure organisations (NAVCA, ACRE, Volunteering England and BTEG for example) who are developing and implementing their own quality and outcomes orientated systems.

There is more information available about the piloting of PERFORM and the latest material can be downloaded.